Advantages: Loads of clip art images, easy to understand, full length file names
Disadvantages: none

...Art Explosion 200,000 contains 8 easy to use CD-ROMs and a CD-ROM Portfolio. It comes with a step by step guide to help you use clip art in your favourite programmes. I have had this for about two years now, having purchased it at PC World. I still regularly use it for creative projects. I.e. flyers, greeting cards and invitations. I particularly liked its images of flowers and christmas images, which I often use in my card making projects. You get categories to choose from i.e. animals, cartoons, landscapes, transport and loads more... If you have children it can keep them busy for ages, with projects and ideas as they learn to import graphics. You can also create anything from business cards to brochures and use on web pages. System requirements: any pc running Windows 95,98, Me, NT or 2000 and a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. It... Read review

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Advantages: Really Easy to use
Disadvantages: A tiny bit of memory taken up on the Hard Drive

...THIS PACKAGE IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once upon a time we had to go out and buy our own cards from Clinton Cards or make them with really rubbish pictures- THAT WAS THE PAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you can create a card and put in you own fonts, cliparts, and labels for the packages. You can create the typer of card for that special occasion by using the 'Create You own Cards' CD - Rom, then use fonts to customise it. You can then add pictures using the Clip Art package and then create a label for the envelope. The package contains 4 programs and 7 CDs overall. The Clip Arts (as you can imagine) take up a bit of memory but the great thing is, you only install the program; not the images. I currently own the sequel to this ( Create Your Own Greeting Cards 2) and this is much better. It has more... Read review

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Advantages: Font names displayed in actual font
Disadvantages: Clip Art more difficult to move

...After having successfully used "Office 97" notably "Word 97" with my GCSE Design and Technology, Graphic Products students for the last two years I was excited to see our school computer network having "Office 2000" installed. I immediately got some of my year 10 students to give it a "bench test". First of all they noticed a very good point in that when scrolling down the font type bar that the names of the huge range of fonts were displayed in the actual font, a big time saver. Next they remarked on the range of clip art available, another plus. Imagine my disappointment when they started to say that the clip art could be moved by "dragging and dropping" as easily as it could with "Word 97". After a while, with no decent help from the "paperclip man" we discovered a way of altering the clip art so that it could be moved but it rather... Read review

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Advantages: Great clip art, easy to use
Disadvantages: printable areas aren't calibrated right

...The very best thing about Publisher I find is the FANTASTIC clip art. I'm not talking about a few dodgy looking cartoons, I'm talking about hundreds upon hundreds of good quality photographs. These photographs are great for putting into business leaflets/literature they show almost every activity you can think of. If you want a photo of a blind kid ice skating, there is probably one. The program itself is very straight forward and easy to use and the wizards are excellent for the inexperienced (or for the lazy person who wants the dull work done for her). The only problem I have encountered is a little variation in the printable area on screen and the actual printable area but I've got this sorted after a little trial and error.... Read review

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Advantages: A huge troubleshooting guide and an easy step by step inteface. Advanced tools available for presentation enhancement. Simple word processing tools make it suitable for all, and the colourful style of word makes it fun to use as well as educational.
Disadvantages: Will someone please shoot the bloody paperclip. The most annoying tool within the office package. Error messages which often come up can be confusing.

..., Word count and mail merge. Power Word however is not all that it seems, as well as a powerful word processing software; it can be used as a drawing tool as well. Simply Right click on the top tool bar and select “drawing” and a variety of drawing tools become available. The work that is produced on Microsoft Word 2000 can not only be made interesting with the drawing tools, but its overall presentation can be enhanced by using Clip art or Word art. CLIP ART Clip art is a section included with many software packages like Microsoft office that allows you to search and view at hundreds of little pictures/sounds/animations or photos. When a picture is found it can be added to your work by simply clicking on the appropriate picture. WORD ART Word art is a unique application available in word that allows headers and titles... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty of memory
Disadvantages: none

...This is a technology geeks paradise! I love it. This phone is equipped with everything you could want for a simple mobile. It comes with a memory card so you can stores tons of pictures, ringtones and songs. The media player is also very good. Songs will play on like an mp3 player and there is no buffering etc, doesnt take a second to load a file. The sound quality is great and the volume options are easy to use. You can use any song for a ringtone. If you are a tech geek like me you'll love the fact you can connect it to your computer and download more ringtones images clip art wallpaper and games using infrared or bluetooth if your computer is able to. Another good feature of this phone is its games - plenty and different but they've stiill got the good ol' "Snake"! The calendar is very detailed so this is also a good phone... Read review

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Advantages: Totally and utterly brilliant
Disadvantages: Some Error messages can be confusing

...automatically saves the document you are working on). Spell checking and punctuation: If like me, you are a fast typist, and find it aggravating when you miss a letter out of a word and have to go back to edit it, Microsoft Word has a built in spell checker that automatically changes this which makes it a lot easier to use, and saves you time (e.g. if you type necesary instead of necessary, Word will automatically change this for you). Word also comes with a built in grammar checker, which recognizes grammar and punctuation mistakes, and informs you about them, and suggests the correct answer which if you click on, it will automatically update it for you. There is also a Thesaurus which helps you if you have a small vocabulary! ClipArt, WordArt and drawing tools: Word comes with some extra features, which are useful if you are not doing something... Read review

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Advantages: Very Funny.
Disadvantages: Sometimes makes fools of people.

...There are many ways of looking at Trigger Happy T.V. Some say it's all a joke and no one gets hurt. Others say it makes fools out of people and is unkind and takes advantage of people. I personally think that it is very funny. It is a show that has a number of different clips that are performed in front of the unsuspecting public. It is performed by Dom Joly. He dresses up as many different people like in one clip he dresses up as a traffic warden and goes up to people waiting at traffic lights to tell them they can't park there. If you don't like people that shout down mobile phones then he really takes the micky out of all those people by sitting in a public place,making his phone ring and shouting HELLO. My only critisizem for it is when he pretends to be a really old man, takes ages to get across the road, a man helps him kindly... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: Takes a while understanding how to save pictures

...This is a great piece of educational software to get children interested with computers. It's very ergonomic with very little text so he child does no have to be able to read to use the software. Some of the features are listed below. 1. Large icons for the less dexteric. 2. Tons of clip art- spiders is a popular one. 3. Choose from about 50 different background scenes. 4. Hundreds of Disney charactors to choose from and they all dance. 5. Choice of about 25 tunes. 6. Save and Print functions (saving can be complex at first) 7. 4 levels of difficulty Audio and graphic tutorials for creating your very own little clip. Overall, it is easy to use and fast to learn. There is no help menu although ther's not much need. The software runs smootly never crashing or causing problems. I purchased this software for £1 at a computer fair so I... Read review

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Advantages: Everything!!!
Disadvantages: Takes a long time to load on to the hard drive, have to have a GOOD memory capacity